[TUHS] End of an era: the last ATC (USENIX Annual Technical Conference)

[arnold at skeeve.com]

IMHO, the best tutorials on ed are the chapters in "Software Tools"
and "Software Tools in Pascal" where Kernighan and Plauger write
a basic version of it.  I recommend both books highly, despite
their age.

"Software Tools" literally changed my life. :-)

Arnold

Cameron Míċeál Tyre via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> Ah, rabbit holes. Dangerous things. I went down the ed rabbit hole around
> a month ago and no sign of me finding my way back out any time soon.
> 
> I got obsessed with getting ed running on every device I have including my
> phones and then the big rabbit hole off that first one was learning how to
> use it properly and to the fullest of its abilities. That'll take a while.
> 
> My library of ed related publications is getting so big its likely
> what's blocking the exit to the rabbit hole. On the plus side it has
> sharpened my typing skills, improved my patience and I I've learned to
> work out for myself what I've done to cause ed to say ?, instead of just
> typing h+Enter.
> 
> As rabbit holes go, it's been stimulating so far and I could be stuck
> in worse places.
>
> Have a safe one!
>
> Cameron
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> On 16/07/2025 01:01, Luther Johnson <luther.johnson at makerlisp.com> wrote:
>
> >  I just noticed that algorithm and logarithm just have a couple of
> >  letters transposed from each other. So that's the kind of rabbit hole I
> >  get lost in most days.
> >  
>